10 minutes of poetry - Lili Monori

History and everyday life, objective and subjective, extreme long shot and extreme close-up, theatre and poems... and Lili Monori.

The new opening of the Proton Theatre is a journey in time and space, past and present, with Lili Monori and about Lili Monori. Everything changes. Yet everything stays the same.

"Although we had supposedly come to see a one-woman show, we soon realised that what we were watching was not in the least bit confined to this genre. Monori wasn't acting out a role, and though the title of the monodrama is 10 Minutes of Poetry, and the poem she recites indeed lasts no longer than that, she then proceeded to unveil her true self. As she is in life: both an actor and a ‘civilian’. An actor in civilian mode." (Gyula Balogh - Népszava)

"To put it shortly, the performance would have been completely empty... if we hadn't realised with a pounding heartbeat that no one has presented the torment and struggle of an artist's life so accurately, authentically and openly – at least for me – since the 2010 production of Peter Brook's monodrama Why?, also at the Castle Theatre." (György Fodor - Gyulai Hírlap)